Optus boss dodges questions over job after Australia-wide outage


Rosmarin was repeatedly asked by a senate committee investigating the crash if she was considering resigning, and whether Optus required fresh leadership. Rosmarin replied that her focus had been on the crisis. — AFP

The head of Australia’s second-largest telecommunications company, Optus, sidestepped questions from a parliamentary panel about her position following a nationwide outage that disconnected millions of customers and disabled parts of the public-transport network.

Chief executive officer Kelly Bayer Rosmarin was repeatedly asked by a senate committee investigating the crash if she was considering resigning, and whether Optus required fresh leadership. Rosmarin replied that her focus had been on the crisis. “It has not been a time to think about myself,” she said. She said she hadn’t seen a report Friday that she might quit as soon as next week.

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